Oprah Winfrey Will Narrate Her New Audiobook - Posted June 3, 2014
Oprah Winfrey will narrate her upcoming audiobook What I Know For Sure.
The audiobook from from Macmillan Audio is based on the column in O, The Oprah Magazine which spawned from an interview with film critic Gene Sis... [AllTwitter]

Flatiron Books to Publish Oprah's New Book in September - Posted March 12, 2014
Flatiron Books will publish Oprah Winfrey's new book What I Know For Sure in September. The book will be the first publication from Macmillan's new non-fiction imprint Flatiron Books.
The book will include a collection of essays that Winfrey pub... [10,000 Words]

Rob Ford's Brother Says Oprah, Dr. Phil Among Media Suitors - Posted November 29, 2013
It remains one of FishbowlNY's favorite TV offerings of the year: the single episode of talk show Ford Nation, which aired in Canada on the Sun News Network Monday November 18 right before the program was canceled Tuesday November 19.
... [AllTwitter]

How to Pitch Your Clients to O Magazine - Posted March 21, 2013
The queen of media's eponymous mag boasts 14 million readers and has numerous accolades to its credit. After launching in 2000 through a partnership with Hearst, the pub has earned a dozen ASME nods and has become the go-to resource encouraging "confident, intelligent women to reach for thei... [FishbowlDC]

Land $2 Per Word at O, The Oprah Magazine - Posted March 21, 2013
After launching in 2000 through a partnership with Hearst, O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine has amassed a dozen ASME nods and won numerous accolades. Although it has some heavy newsstand competition, O's health editor ... [morningmedianewsfeed]

Land $2 Per Word at O, The Oprah Magazine - Posted March 21, 2013
After launching in 2000 through a partnership with Hearst, O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine has amassed a dozen ASME nods and won numerous accolades. Although it has some heavy newsstand competition, O's health editor ... [FishbowlNY]

'Citizen Hearst': An Inside Look at the Hearst Media Empire - Posted March 4, 2013
Ahead of its premiere at two New York City theaters next week, FishbowlNY attended a screening of Citizen Hearst Monday at the SoHo House. The documentary, directed by Academy Award nominee Leslie Iwerks an... [FishbowlLA]

5 Tips for Social Media Event Planning and Activation - Posted March 4, 2013
Today we bring you a guest post courtesy of Cara Kleinhaut, founder of award-winning event creative, production and design agency Caravents. In the last few weeks alone, Caravents has organized and promoted events r... [FishbowlDC]

Adam Glassman Talks Rookie Fashion Stylist Mistakes - Posted February 20, 2013
If only he had enough hours in a day. That's the most challenging part of Adam Glassman's gig as creative director of O Magazine, a post where he's constantly navigating the worlds of graphic design and fashion.... [PRNewser]

Adam Glassman Talks Rookie Fashion Stylist Mistakes - Posted February 20, 2013
If only he had enough hours in a day. That's the most challenging part of Adam Glassman's gig as creative director of O Magazine, a post where he's constantly navigating the worlds of graphic design and fashion.... [Inside Mobile Apps]

Reader Poll: Should Lance Armstrong Fess Up to Oprah? - Posted January 9, 2013
We know a few of our readers have probably run out of patience with Lance Armstrong at this point, but he remains one of the best-known names in sports, and the delicate dance he continues to perform in the interest of maintaining his ... [FishbowlDC]

Oprah Uses Apple iPad to Endorse Microsoft Surface - Posted November 19, 2012
The public understands the challenges of brand consistency in the digital age. With so many distractions unfolding so continuously and quickly, it's easy to go off message or reveal a failure in a brand's promise or values.
Just as that dangerous mix of human fallibility and technical reliability ... [GalleyCat]

Oprah Uses Apple iPad to Endorse Microsoft Surface - Posted November 19, 2012
The public understands the challenges of brand consistency in the digital age. With so many distractions unfolding so continuously and quickly, it's easy to go off message or reveal a failure in a brand's promise or values.
Just as that dangerous mix of human fallibility and technical reliability ... [FishbowlDC]

Students Camp Out for Team Dave+Oprah - Posted November 12, 2012
While Twilight fans were busy camping out in downtown Los Angeles this weekend for tonight's Breaking Dawn - Part 2 premiere, another overnight line-up sprung up Friday-Saturday in Muncie, Indiana. It was for a different kind of sequel: the November 26 installment of Ball State's David Letterman Lecture Series featuring very... [FishbowlLA]

Re-Branding: Oprah, HuffPo Join Forces - Posted November 1, 2012
Two of the media world's biggest one-woman brands have joined forces in the interest of elevating both of their profiles--and their respective media outlets.
After some earlier announcements, the two chose today to launch "HuffPost OW... [FishbowlDC]

Publicist-Turned-Filmmaker Ava DuVernay Gets Glowing AP Profile - Posted October 19, 2012
A year that began with Ava DuVernay claiming the first-ever win by a black woman of Sundance's Best Director prize continues apace this month for the former film publicist. As she told AP entertainment writer ... [FishbowlLA]

Hearst Documentary Screens in San Francisco - Posted October 15, 2012
Following a splashy private screening at Hearst headquarters in New York City and a public world premiere earlier this month at the Hamptons International Film Festival, feature documentary Citizen Hearst has come home to roost. Commissioned by Hearst and narrated by actor ... [FishbowlLA]

Oprah Signs Exclusive Deal with Tyler Perry - Posted October 1, 2012
Not long ago, Our America executive producer and host Lisa Ling told us OWN was the best place she had ever worked. Thanks a monumental new deal announced today, things are only going to get better.
... [FishbowlLA]

For THR Awards Blogger, It's Telluride - Take Two - Posted August 31, 2012
A year ago at this time, Scott Feinberg (pictured) had just signed a contract with The Hollywood Reporter to join the publication as lead awards blogger and tumbled into his first-ever trip to ... [FishbowlLA]

Meet Devon Franklin, Oprah's New BFF - Posted June 20, 2012
DeVon Franklin, VP of production for Columbia/Sony Pictures, had a very big weekend. On Saturday, he tied the knot wit... [FishbowlLA]

Oprah Launches Book Club 2.0 - Posted June 1, 2012
A new video from Oprah Winfrey has relaunched her book club. Only this time it's Book Club 2.0, a digitized version of the club that will include e-books (notes highlighting the parts she likes will be included), a Twitter hashtag #oprahsbookclub, and additional interaction on Facebook and elsewh... [GalleyCat]

Deadline's Mike Fleming Takes Another Playboy Detour - Posted May 21, 2012
Although Mike Fleming's deadline.com duties keep him very busy, he still finds the time to continue one longstanding freelance tradition. The Playboy interview.
Beginning with ... [FishbowlLA]

The Best Ad-Related Videos of the Week - Posted May 11, 2012
Ad-related videos! This is where we find a bunch of fun clips and loosely associate them with advertising because, hell, everything is an ad for something nowadays, whether it's promoting a movie as this week's Between Two Ferns clip does, or promoting tolerance with Foamy the Squirrel. So, on to the... [GalleyCat]

Thanks to Homeless Man, OWN Finally Gets Some Good PR - Posted April 25, 2012
Just when Oprah Winfrey perhaps needed him most, homeless LA resident "Eddie" has come to the public relations rescue of the embattled media mogul and her fellow OWN executives.
This recent encounter at B... [FishbowlLA]

OWN Restructuring Results in 30 Pink Slips - Posted March 19, 2012
The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) laid off 30 employees in Los Angeles and New York Monday as the network faces another round of restructuring. This time around, the suits from Discovery Communications are coming in to help oversee operations.
The Los Angeles Times has the ... [FishbowlLA]

Jimmy Kimmel Lands Oprah for Oscars Special - Posted February 16, 2012
For years now, the most entertaining part of the Oscars has been Jimmy Kimmel's post-Academy Awards special.
The ABC late night talk show host ... [FishbowlLA]

Oprah Tries to Boost OWN Ratings, Broke Nielsen Rules in the Process - Posted February 13, 2012
While most of the tweets that turned up on our feed last night were about the #Grammys, I remember one in particular from my (imaginary) friend @Oprah that was not: "Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Neilsen box." Because we're (imaginary) friends... [FishbowlDC]

O, The Oprah Magazine Struggling - Posted February 7, 2012
Looks like OWN isn't the only Oprah Winfrey media property struggling since the talk goddess left her syndicated show. Adweek reports that... [FishbowlLA]

If OWN Channel Doesn't Work Out, Oprah's Going to Be a Farmer - Posted December 29, 2011
January 1st marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Oprah Winfrey's OWN channel. As you've probably heard, 2011 didn't go so great for OWN. Its ratings routinely failed to top the meager showing of its predecessor Discovery Health. That probably h... [FishbowlLA]

Real Housewife Melissa Gorga Dishes on Her Sister-in-Law From Hell - Posted November 30, 2011
Slow moving holiday tourists and presidential motorcades be damned. Nothing could keep the faithful away from Michael's today. With the place decked out in its holiday finery, the mood was like a swanky office party on steroids. While the usual suspects and a cool visitor from California (producer/composer ... [FishbowlLA]

Big Corporations Among Major Donors to MLK Memorial - Posted August 24, 2011
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, which will have its official dedication this Sunday, August 28, had financial help from some major corporations. ... [FishbowlDC]

Authors Get to Know the Real Arnon Milchan - Posted August 11, 2011
Next week, a must-read for Hollywood aficionados arrives in bookstores: Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan... [FishbowlLA]

Oprah Dreams of O.J. Confessing to Her - Posted June 17, 2011
It's a long-running joke that anyone looking to unburden their soul of a troubling transgression will confess to Oprah Winfrey on her television ... [TVNewser]

Oprah Dreams of O.J. Confessing to Her - Posted June 17, 2011
It's a long-running joke that anyone looking to unburden their soul of a troubling transgression will confess to Oprah Winfrey on her television ... [SportsNewser]

Military 'Joining Forces' With Hollywood - Posted June 16, 2011
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Hollywood's relationship with the military has needed counseling for quite some time. But it took ... [FishbowlDC]

Who Is Katie Couric, Really? - Posted June 7, 2011
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Katie Couric's new gig at ABC opens up new doors for her on daytime TV. According to yesterday's announcement, Couric will jump right in to the ... [FishbowlDC]

Oprah Winfrey's Many Lessons in Good Branding - Posted May 25, 2011
The final installment of The Oprah Winfrey Show is airing across a sad country today. And at Oprah's final good-bye (from her ABC daytime program, at least; she'll be starting a new program called Oprah's Next Chapter on... [FishbowlDC]

ESPN, Oprah make dream come true for aspiring sportscaster - Posted April 20, 2011
Cleveland resident Ron Brown is a big fan of ESPN and has always wanted to a sportscaster. He was watching ESPN News the other day when something downright cool happened. Take it away, Mark Dawidziak of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer:
Ron Brown was sitting in the bar of a Winking Lizard restaurant Sunday... [TVNewser]

ESPN, Oprah make dream come true for aspiring sportscaster - Posted April 20, 2011
Cleveland resident Ron Brown is a big fan of ESPN and has always wanted to a sportscaster. He was watching ESPN News the other day when something downright cool happened. Take it away, Mark Dawidziak of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer:
Ron Brown was sitting in the bar of a Winking Lizard restaurant Sunday... [SportsNewser]

Oprah's Not Owning "OWN" Thus Far - Posted February 10, 2011
Many new shows on network TV are given a few weeks to get their sea legs. Other shows are treated differently because so much time and money has been invested that they are forced into the deep end of the pool regardless. Drown and the money drowns too.
But when it's a... [FishbowlDC]

Steven Spielberg Is the Most Influential Celebrity? - Posted January 13, 2011
Forbes and its partner E-Poll Research have compiled a list of the ten most influential celebrities with Steven Spielberg coming out on top. He "narrowly edges out" ... [FishbowlDC]

KTLA Reporter Among Your OWN Show Contestants - Posted December 30, 2010
Billboards for Oprah Winfrey's new TV network are all over LA and now, the city is returning the favor. Of the ten finalists culled from 15,000 online and offline ... [FishbowlLA]

Oprah's Favorite Bings - Posted November 29, 2010
Bing and DonorsChoose.org are two of Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things, so fresh off their appearance on the last-ever Favorite Things episode on Oprah, Microsoft's search engine teamed up with the online charity site and the talk show to create the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Oprah Scoops Hollywood - Again - Posted October 20, 2010
Later today, Atlanta-based mogul Tyler Perry will share what he describes as the most "in-depth and revelatory interview" he has ever ... [FishbowlLA]

Oprah Winfrey Names Her Favorite iPad Apps - Posted October 6, 2010
Talk show host and book club tastemaker Oprah Winfrey named her favorite iPad apps at the American Magazine Conference this week in Chicago.
Ad Age has more detail... [PRNewser]

Oprah Winfrey Names Her Favorite iPad Apps - Posted October 6, 2010
Talk show host and book club tastemaker Oprah Winfrey named her favorite iPad apps at the American Magazine Conference this week in Chicago.
Ad Age has more detail... [Inside Mobile Apps]

What's on Oprah Winfrey's iPad? - Posted October 6, 2010
Apps from CNN and ABC News made the short list of favorite iPad apps from Op... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

How Do You Replace Oprah? With A Lot Of Jobs - Posted July 20, 2010
WLS Channel 7, aka Oprah Winfrey's flagship outlet until Winfrey calls it quits next year, is making big and surprising plans to fill the 9 a.m. timeslot.
Until recently, it had been assumed (writes Robert Feder... [MediaJobsDaily]

Oprah iPad App To Include eBooks - Posted July 14, 2010
Oprah Winfrey is taking her book club to the iPad with a new eReader app and eBookstore. The eReading tool will be part of the O Magazine iPad app, which is expected to hit the market... [PRNewser]

Oprah iPad App To Include eBooks - Posted July 14, 2010
Oprah Winfrey is taking her book club to the iPad with a new eReader app and eBookstore. The eReading tool will be part of the O Magazine iPad app, which is expected to hit the market... [Inside Mobile Apps]

Super Bowl PR Winners and Losers - Posted February 8, 2010
[Coke teams up with The Simpsons for their Super Bowl ad.]
This is more AgencySpy's territory, but PRNewser wanted to provide a quick recap of who "won" and who "lost" in last night's Super Bowl marketing bonanza.
Winners:
Pepsi Refresh
Although the jury is still out on Pepsi's decision to skip the Super Bowl in... [FishbowlDC]

Want Some Free Chicken? Ask Weber Shandwick - Posted October 26, 2009
While the agency won't be able to offer you any free chicken, their client, KFC is offering one piece of free grilled chicken at 5,000 locations today. A quick news search shows an Associated Press story alongside a slew of broadcast and other coverage for the campaign... [FishbowlDC]

Discovery CEO Gets 50% Raise - Posted September 11, 2009
We've probably said this before, but who says there's no money in media?
Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) CEO David Zaslav just got a 50% raise to $3 million yearly and could get another $55 million in five years if he doesn't quit and meets his performance targets.
That's reported ... [MediaJobsDaily]

Josef Adalian Gets Snatched by Sharon Waxman - Posted June 15, 2009
Josef Adalian got a gig over at TheWrap.
From their press release:
Adalian is currently Editor of industry publication TVWEEK.com and prior to that had been at Variety, covering television there for a decade. Adalian joins TheWrap's top-notch editorial and business team, most recent... [FishbowlLA]

Some Of DC's Most Influential Party With Time's - Posted May 6, 2009
Time convened some of the most influential people in the world last night at the 6th annual gala celebrating the 100 Most Influential list. The black-tie party was held at Frederick P. Rose Hall in L... [morningmedianewsfeed]

Some Of DC's Most Influential Party With Time's - Posted May 6, 2009
Time convened some of the most influential people in the world last night at the 6th annual gala celebrating the 100 Most Influential list. The black-tie party was held at Frederick P. Rose Hall in L... [FishbowlNY]

Taking Out The Trash - Posted April 27, 2009
What we almost missed today...
• WaPo ombudsman Andrew Alexander is making up for lost time. He says in Sunday's paper, "A broken system is being fixed." Corrections dating back to 2007 and 2008 have appeared in the paper the past few weeks to correct a problem at the paper Alexander... [morningmedianewsfeed]

Taking Out The Trash - Posted April 27, 2009
What we almost missed today...
• WaPo ombudsman Andrew Alexander is making up for lost time. He says in Sunday's paper, "A broken system is being fixed." Corrections dating back to 2007 and 2008 have appeared in the paper the past few weeks to correct a problem at the paper Alexander... [FishbowlNY]

The Oprah Effect on Twitter - It's For Real - Posted April 21, 2009
Oprah Winfrey posted her first Tweet last Friday during her show. US Internet visits to twitter.com increased 24% on that day. And when compared to visits from the previous Friday, the site was up 43%. The following chart, with data from Hitwise, shows daily visits to twitter.com from January 1 -... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Jumping the Shark or a Whole New Begining for Twitter? - Posted April 17, 2009
Yes, it's happened. This morning Oprah Winfrey joined Twitter (@Oprah) during her show. Her first Tweet: "ASHTON IS NEXT!" was very anti-climactic. Instead of hitting Update, Nate Berkus hit Refresh. So it went to Twitter purgatory. Her first successful Tweet:
HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELIN... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Net Worth Drops for All But One on Forbes List of Media Billionaires - Posted March 11, 2009
Forbes has just release its 2009 list of the World's Billionaires. This year there are fewer billionaires on the planet, and the richest people in the world have gotten poorer. The total number of billionaires fell to 793 from 1,125.
Here's a list of 10 big names in media and the Web,... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Burning Down The Houses... - Posted November 14, 2008
Over 100 homes in Montecito have been lost and thousands of acres burned in what is being called 'The Tea House fire' or the Tea Fire (depending on your source) because of the structure at the point of origin. Reporting for the LA Times is staffer ... [FishbowlLA]

In Brief: Good Week for Oprah, Less So for Her Home - Posted November 7, 2008
⇒ The presidential candidate with the Oprah Winfrey seal of approval is headed to the White House, but Winfrey's quarterly shelter magazine, O at Home, won't be covering Obama's new digs. Hearst has decided to fold O at H... [UnBeige]

In Brief: Good Week for Oprah, Less So for Her Home - Posted November 7, 2008
⇒ The presidential candidate with the Oprah Winfrey seal of approval is headed to the White House, but Winfrey's quarterly shelter magazine, O at Home, won't be covering Obama's new digs. Hearst has decided to fold O at H... [AgencySpy]

E! Names Ken Baker Executive News Editor - Posted February 4, 2008
More on this breaking story. For now, here's the press release:
Baker Joins E! From Us Weekly, Where He Most Recently Served as Editorial Director for the Magazine's Web Site, Usmagazine.com
Los Angeles, CA, February 4, 2008 -- E! Entertainment, the global leader for entertainment and celebrity ne... [FishbowlLA]

It's Oprah's World, We Just Live In It - Posted January 15, 2008
Discovery Communications and Oprah Winfrey announced that the Discovery Health network will be turned over to Winfrey next year, becoming OWN--the Oprah Winfrey Network. From AP:
The cas... [FishbowlLA]

Sundown on Sunset: Back Talk - Posted January 11, 2008
Food Woolf and Matt Bites both snap at the heels of the LAT's Leslie Brenner and her Diner'... [FishbowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 12.10.07 - Posted December 10, 2007
Good morning Washington.
For those of you wondering why we're not including the Politico, Roll Call and The Hill in our "Pictures of Morning Papers" feature -- which we'd love to do -- it's because a.) Politico and Roll Call are usually a day behind in posting theres and b.) The Hill... [morningmedianewsfeed]

Morning Reading List, 12.10.07 - Posted December 10, 2007
Good morning Washington.
For those of you wondering why we're not including the Politico, Roll Call and The Hill in our "Pictures of Morning Papers" feature -- which we'd love to do -- it's because a.) Politico and Roll Call are usually a day behind in posting theres and b.) The Hill... [FishbowlNY]